Chemistry Letters, Vol.29, No.8, 894-895, 2000
Electric-field-induced quenching of fluorescence of tetraphenylporphyrin in a PMMA polymer film
Fluorescence of tetraphenylporphyrin (TPP) doped in a polymer film is quenched by an electric field. Field-induced enhancement of the internal conversion from S-1 to the ground state is considered to be accelerated by a molecular association. Electroabsorption spectra and electrofluorescence spectra also show that change in molecular polarizability following excitation increases by a molecular association of TPP.